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I’ve used Textpattern for the last few years, its been a steady and reliable system that has seen alot of improvement in the last year or so, but unfortunatly its not heading down the route I need. Textpattern is a amazing generic CMS system, adaptable to various styles of site but for blogging it lacks a few key features, plugins make up for a few minor issues but out-of-the-box its not really geared towards a blog engine.

Enter Mephisto, a Rails based blog engine with a hint of CMS, just the right amount to have a primary blog and a few article style pages.

The move from Textpattern wasn’t the smoothest as the conversion process was designed for their old system. After a few hours and using the WordPress plugin as a basis I had a very simple import tool. The articles and comments are migrated over and its a excellent starting point. I’ll hopefully submit this to the Mephisto developers within the next few days, as a minor “svn switch” incident overwrote a few files…

So, yes, the site will be lacking in information for the next few days while I have to add the categories and tags, but i’ll get there sooner or later.